Chinese Pygmy Dormouse

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Chinese Pygmy Dormouse Fossil range: Late Miocene - Recent
Conservation status
Least Concern
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Rodentia Family: Platacanthomyidae Genus: Typhlomys Milne-Edwards, 1877 Species: T. cinereus
Binomial name
Typhlomys cinereus Milne-Edwards, 1877
Subspecies
T. c. cinereus T. c. chapensis T. c. daloushanensis T. c. guangxiensis T. c. jingdongensis

The Chinese Pygmy Dormouse (Typhlomys cinereus) is a species of rodent in the Platacanthomyidae family. It is found in China and Vietnam.

[edit] Subspecies

Musser and Carleton (2005) recognized 5 subspecies. The NW Vietnamese form Typhlomys cinereus chapensis is often treated as a distinct species, but it falls within the normal variance of Chinese T. cinereus (Musser and Carleton, 2005).

• Pygmy Dormouse or Soft-furred Tree Mouse ''Typhlomys cinereus Milne-Edwards, 1877
  • Typhlomys cinereus cinereus Milne-Edwards, 1877
  • Typhlomys cinereus chapensis Osgood, 1932
  • Typhlomys cinereus daloushanensis Wang & Li, 1996
  • Typhlomys cinereus guangxiensis Wang & Chen, 1996
  • Typhlomys cinereus jingdongensis Wu & Wang, 1984

[edit] References

• Baillie, J. 1996. Typhlomys cinereus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.
• Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. Pp. 894-1531 in Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.